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Bonus pay threat from EEC

7th November 1975
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A FIERCE attack on the EEC's second Social Regulation— which among other things would ban bonus payments related to tonnage or mileage —was made this week by the Freight Transport Association's director-general, Mr Hugh Featherstone.

Addressing a joint FTA and Chartered Institute of Transport meeting in Merseyside, Mr Featherstone said that the regulation was re-emerging at the insistence of several EEC member States. They were only prepared to accept changes to the 543/69 hours law if the Social Regulation were introduced at the same time.

Barter deal

Mr Featherstone warned of the dangers of a barter deal where an easing of 543/69 would be accompanied by the introduction of the Social Regulation. "We might easily reach a situation where the deal was not worth a candle," he said.

Mr Featherstone said that Britain had to wait and see what emerged on the 450km rule, on driving periods, on the scope for national dispensations and various other improvements being requested.

However favourable the outcome, Britain should only accept the Second Social if it excluded provisions on holidays, if it allowed genuine productivity schemes to continue and if it provided the sort of spreadovers now possible under British law,

Total opposition

Mr Featherstone committed the FTA to total °position to the Regulation's ban on bonus schemes related to tonnage and mileage. Such a move would spell the end of many first-class productivity schemes, he said. A proposed move to give transport workers four weeks' holiday was "just not on" in the ownaccount sector because of the interaction with non-transport workers.


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